Elias Coral Empire

Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0446-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elias, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. The Coral Uncanny
1. Coral Empire 15
2. Mad Love 29
Part II. John Ernest Williamson and the Bahamas
3. Williamson and the Photosphere 49
4. The Field Museum—Williamson Undersea Expedition 68
5. Under the Sea 83
6. Williamson in Australia 97
Part III. Frank Hurley and the Great Barrier Reef
7. Hurley and the Floor of the Sea 117
8. Hurley and the Australian Museum Expedition 131
9. Pearls and Savages 147
10. Hurley and the Torres Strait Diver 165
Part IV. Hurley and Williamson
11. Explorers and Modern Media 185
12. Color and Tourism 199
Part V. The Great Acceleration
13. The Anthropocene 217
Conclusion 230
Notes 235
Bibliography 261
Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Elias is Associate Professor of the History and Theory of Contemporary Global Art at the University of Sydney, author of Camouflage Australia: Art, Nature, Science, and War and Useless Beauty: Flowers and Australian Art, and coeditor of Camouflage Cultures: Beyond the Art of Disappearance.